This formality irked her: she wanted to play a little, romp. Wood dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion, essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. One of them was a stout square-built man, with a singularly swarthy complexion, and harsh forbidding features. The moon had arisen, and everything could be as plainly distinguished as during the day. At once there came an answering knock. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. McClintock would bang his fist upon the table. The Disguise 261 VI. The sky was dripping a wet, slow rain that had forced the city’s inhabitants into taxicabs and dingy cafeterias, the day wholly ruined for all except the insane schizophrenics and her. He admitted that it would bore him to dally here in Canton, with the pleasures of Hong-Kong so close. He had little money about him, and unless friends come to his aid he must be treated as a pauper. It had ceased now, but as he closed in on the area, a faint muttering came to his ears. And neither had any of that theatricality which demands gestures and facial expression.
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